Alba Berga
Associate Project Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlba Berga is an Associate Project Scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography with eight years of experience applying bioacoustics and behavioral ecology to marine conservation. She specializes in cetacean monitoring—especially beaked and sperm whales—using acoustic signal analysis, population density estimation, and machine learning to study echolocation, animal communication, and responses to underwater noise from navy sonar and shipping. Trained through a PhD in Marine Science and long-term roles at Scripps and LAB, she blends fieldwork deploying hydrophones with development of open-source analysis tools and automated detection algorithms. Her work often tackles data-deficient, endangered species and reveals behavioral patterns from high-frequency recordings that traditional surveys miss. Based in San Diego, she brings both rigorous quantitative modeling and hands-on ecological insight to inform conservation and noise-impact mitigation.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Oceanography, Biological and Physical, Master's degree, Oceanography, Biological and Physical at Universidad de VigoUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBachelor's degree, Biology, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology, General at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (18)
ecology10
acoustics10
classification10
machine-learning10
audio-processing10
earth10
triton10
data-visualization10
music10
monitoring9
graphical-user-interface9
r-package6
r4
regression4
matlab4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MarineBioAcousticsRC/DetEdit
Jun 2017 - May 2022
A graphical user interface for annotating and editing events detected in long-term acoustic monitoring data
Contributions:1 release, 169 commits, 38 PRs in 4 years 11 months
graphical-user-interfacemonitoringbigdatalong-term-monitoringacoustic-monitoring
MarineBioAcousticsRC/Triton
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
:whale: Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab :earth_americas: Scripps Acoustic Ecology Lab - Triton with remoras in development
Contributions:3 releases, 80 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years 10 months
marine-speciesaudio-processingmbarcacousticsdetection
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